John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700-1945)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: March 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781840142396
Subjects: Biography: general; Geology & the lithosphere; Geologists; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Scientists - General; Great Britain; General; 1800-1874; Biography; Phillips, John,
First sentence: The way of death and burial of John Phillips, professor of geology in the University of Oxford and keeper of the University Museum, showed that he had achieved the ne plus ultra of distinction.